ABOUT  INOVIS

INOVIS has a long-standing history of providing actionable Competitive Intelligence services, both primary intelligence and strategic analysis, to the Tech & Telecom and Pharma/ Biotech / MedTech industries ...

Working with clients at various stages of product, franchise and company lifecycles, we are able to distil, deliver and facilitate impactful and strategic insight to help compete in ever uncertain markets

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Our team of industry executives has a proven track-record in corporate strategy and consulting; a solid understanding of clients' needs, brand / development strategies, decision making processes, that in turn ensures our work supports decision-making at the highest of levels.

Backed by expert INOVIS analysts in 50+ countries, we deliver actionable competitive intelligence and strategic guidance, leveraging expert interviewers and quality primary sources, to deliver actionable results.

Marc Limacher
Founder & CEO
      

Marc Limacher started INOVIS in 1992 as a boutique primary CI specialty firm in Palo Alto, CA, specializing in the pharma/medtech, digital health and IT industries.

A 30+year veteran in the CI and counter-intelligence industry, Marc has grown INOVIS into a global leader in primary intelligence and strategic consulting services, serving a select group of loyal, global Fortune 100 companies as loyal clients. He is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the firm and manages the operation of the IT/telco practice.

Prior to INOVIS, Marc was Director of Market Intelligence at a leading U.S. institutional investment firm for five years, providing primary intelligence on small-/medium-/large-cap life science equities via a global employee network of 125 investigative journalists. He also delivers private CI seminars and is a frequent lecturer on CI and counter-intelligence topics at companies and to academia.

Marc is fluent in 5 languages and enjoys proximity to the ski slopes from the Lucerne office, to the Pacific waves from the Palo Alto office, and to NYC from the Princeton office.

Baljit Singh
Managing Director & Partner,
Life Sciences Group
      

Dr. Baljit Singh has nearly 20 years of experience in the global pharmaceutical, biotech, and generics market. He is based in Lucerne at INOVIS' Global Headquarters in Switzerland, where his key responsibilities include both running day-today operational activities and shaping near- and long-term strategic business direction.

He joined INOVIS from Novartis Pharma AG, where he most recently served as Global Director of Integrated Insights, helping develop competitive intelligence (CI) functions and processes that are still in effect today. Prior to this, he managed Global Competitive Intelligence for Respiratory and Primary Care at Novartis.

Previously, Dr. Singh headed Competitive Intelligence for a major Generics and Biosimilar intelligence firm, helping pharmaceutical clients optimize their lifecycle strategies.

Baljit studied pharmacy at the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy in Copenhagen, Denmark and received his Ph.D in Pharmaceutics from London School of Pharmacy. He played cricket for the Danish National team for ~10 Years.

Kathleen D
Senior Director
Strategic Client Services
   

Kathleen proactively manages strategic client relationships and works to optimize the continuing INOVIS tradition of exceeding client expectations, reporting to Marc Limacher, INOVIS' Founder and CEO.

Kathleen brings the perspective of a Fortune-50 company to her work at INOVIS. She joined INOVIS from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), where she most recently served as a world-wide product marketing manager, driving software content marketing strategy and product evangelization.

Prior, she was a senior insights manager at HPE, responsible for delivering actionable customer, market, and competitive analysis for business strategy and planning. Previously, Kathleen served in a number of marketing and channel roles in the software business at Hewlett-Packard (HP). She has 20+ years of experience in the IT industry and holds an MS in Technical Communications from Colorado State University.

Kathleen enjoys hiking in the Rocky Mountains of Northern Colorado, is a backyard beekeeper, and serves on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Children's Speech and Reading Center.

Harshal Kubavat
Head of Strategic Consulting,
Global Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences Group
         

Dr. Harshal Kubavat is the Head of Strategic Consulting Services. Harshal is based in the London office and brings the benefit of having both client and agency experience, hence offering a high degree of understanding of brand and competitor strategies, empathy for clients' needs and pain points, but equally importantly, new innovative and pioneering ideas to enable and optimize brand and competitor strategies.

Harshal joined INOVIS from Roche Pharmaceuticals (Global Product Strategy and UK Marketing), where he provided tremendous value as a Competitive Intelligence Manager (Immunology) and Brand Manager (Oncology) to brand and competitor strategy and tactical execution, at both global, regional and local levels.

Harshal manages the firm's Strategic Consulting Services unit, which consists mainly of brand strategy optimization, workshops, scenario planning, LCM, competitor simulations (war gaming) as well as competitive strategy training sessions to pharma, biotech, medical devices & digital medicine clients, leveraging his extensive experience of academic, patient-facing and commercial activities over the past ten years.

Dr Kubavat was previously a registered UK Pharmacist, obtaining his degree at The School of Pharmacy London, holds a Ph.D in Pharmaceutics from the University of Bath and recently obtained a PG. Certificate in Strategic Marketing Leadership at Henley Business School.

PUBLICATION
Competitive Intelligence :
The Modern Practitioner's Handbook ⟩
by Harshal A. Kubavat
available on Amazon

Larry Fauconnet
Senior Director
Competitive Insights & Strategy
   

Larry Fauconnet, Senior Director of Competitive Insights & Strategy focusing on IT, Telecommunications, and Digital Health, leverages 30 years of competitive intelligence and strategy experience to assist clients in understanding and positioning themselves more effectively on the competitive landscape.

Larry came to INOVIS from AT&T and YP where he provided strategic competitive insights to corporate leadership. Prior to this, Larry served as the director of operations for a Princeton-based geopolitical intelligence consulting firm.

Larry also served for 28 years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, both in active and reserve positions, retiring at the Rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Some of the key intelligence positions Larry held include: Intelligence Planner for the 5th Special Forces Group and the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq and Chief of Intelligence Production for Army Central Command's Intelligence Center.

Larry holds an MBA from Mercer University, an MA from Towson University, and a diploma from the U.S. Army's Command & General Staff College.

We've built our base on exclusive client relationships, fostering an environment of mutual trust and ensuring that our clients' interests are well-served.

While we continually grow our client base, many of our engagements come from clients who have been with us since 1992. They know the quality of our performance and appreciate our emphasis on cultivating supportive, proactive client relationships.

We protect our clients' confidentiality and place a premium on discretion and keeping a low profile. However, selected client references are available upon request.

We've built our base on exclusive client relationships, fostering an environment of mutual trust and ensuring that our clients' interests are well-served.

While we continually grow our client base, many of our engagements come from clients who have been with us since 1992. They know the quality of our performance and appreciate our emphasis on cultivating supportive, proactive client relationships.

We protect our clients' confidentiality and place a premium on discretion and keeping a low profile. However, selected client references are available upon request.